"I thought it was an ear of corn, but it turned out to be an elephant." Stavropol presented a week of comfortable urban environments at the "Russia" exhibition.

About it сообщил in his Telegram channel Governor of Stavropol Krai Vladimir Vladimirov.

In addition to models of the Heroes of Russia Square in Stavropol, Lake 30, and the Cascade Staircase in Zheleznovodsk, a comfortable urban environment in the Stavropol Krai is showcased by a stand demonstrating the production of pellets—fuel granules made from wood waste. There's also a bicycle crusher that "turns plastic bottle caps into cute badges in the shape of an elephant—the symbol of Stavropol." (This refers to the "southern mammoth," which inhabited the Stavropol region in prehistoric times.)

Stavropol residents did not appreciate the governor's flight of thought:

“I’ve been living here for 55 years, and only now have I learned that the symbol of the region is an elephant.”

"I thought the symbol of Stavropol was an ear of wheat. It turned out to be an elephant... I thought the region would be comfortable when you could walk through a clean city in winter, with several well-maintained paths, and when there was plenty of water in the summer."

"So, it turns out that's where the felled trees in Mineralnye Vody go. For pellets."

"What is comfort? Power outages, rotten pipes? Cut-down fir trees?"

NeMoskva previously reported that in the Volgograd region, funds from the project “Formation of a Comfortable Urban Environment” spent on three steles "The Line of Stalingrad Valor".